16 to 19 academies and colleges

If you’re a 16 to 19 academy, FE college or sixth form, we recommend that you publish details of your admission arrangements.

You should publish this information a year before the beginning of the academic year to help parents and students make an informed choice, and we recommend that the arrangements don’t change during the year. You should include details of:

open days your college or academy is planning

the process for applying for a place at your college or academy

whether your college or academy gives priority to applications from pupils enrolled at particular schools

Note that the School admissions code and the School admissions appeal code don’t apply to 16 to 19 academies, FE colleges and sixth-form colleges.

To view the details of our admissions process and and open days, please visit our Sixth Form section.

Ofsted reports

Academies and colleges, including 16 to 19 institutions, should do one of the following:

publish a copy of your school’s or college’s most recent Ofsted report

publish a link to the webpage where users can find your school’s or college’s most recent Ofsted report

Exam and assessment results

Key stage 4 (KS4)

If you’re an academy, you should publish the following information on your website each year:

your school’s progress 8 score

your school’s attainment 8 score

the percentage of pupils who’ve achieved a strong pass (grade 5 or above) in English and maths at the end of KS4

the percentage of pupils entering for the English Baccalaureate (EBacc). To enter the EBacc, pupils must take up to 8 GCSEs or equivalents, across the 5 subject ‘pillars’ of English language and English literature, maths, sciences, a language and history or geography

percentage of pupils who’ve achieved the English Baccalaureate. In 2017, this was the percentage of pupils achieving the EBacc, so pupils who got a grade 5 or above in English and maths, and a grade C or above in the science, humanities and language pillars of the EBacc. In 2018, the EBaccattainment measure will change to an average point score (EBacc APS), showing pupils’ point scores across the 5 pillars of the EBacc

percentage of students staying in education or employment after key stage 4 (destinations)

During the transition to the new GCSE grading scale we will base the EBaccpass level on grade 5 or above for reformed subjects and grade C and above for unreformed subjects.

Key stage 5 (KS5)

If you’re an academy or college, you should publish a link to your 16 to 18 performance tables page.

You can find more information about these performance table measures in the ‘16 to 18 accountability headline measures’ guidance.

Performance tables

Academies, including 16 to 19 academies and colleges, should publish a link to the school and college performance tables and your school or college’s performance tables page.

Curriculum

Academies should publish:

the content of the curriculum your school follows in each academic year for every subject, including for mandatory subjects such as Religious Education even if it’s taught as part of another subject or subjects or is called something else

your approach to the curriculum

how parents or other members of the public can find out more about the curriculum your school is following

how you meet the 16 to 19 study programme requirements (if you have a sixth form or offer education at 16 to 19)

Depending on what phase of education your school offers, we recommend you also publish any of the following that apply to your school:

the names of any phonics or reading schemes you are using in key stage 1

a list of the courses available to pupils at key stage 4, including GCSEs

Year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium

If your school receives year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium funding, you must publish details of how you spend this funding and the effect this has had on the attainment of the pupils who attract it.

You must include:

how much year 7 catch-up premium you received for this financial year

details of how you intend to spend the funding

details of how you spent your year 7 catch-up premium last financial year

how it made a difference to the attainment of the pupils who attract the funding and how you assessed the effect it had.

Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)

Special educational needs (SEN) information report

Academies and free schools must publish a report on their policy for pupils or students with SEN and how they put the policy into effect. They should update this information annually, or as soon as possible if there are changes during the year.

The report must comply with:

section 69 of the Children and Families Act 2014, including:

the arrangements for the admission of disabled pupils

the steps you have taken to prevent disabled pupils from being treated less favourably than other pupils

the facilities you provide to help disabled pupils to access the school

information as to the plan prepared by the governing body or proprietor under paragraph 3 of schedule 10 to the Equality Act 2010 (accessibility plan) for:

increasing the extent to which disabled pupils can participate in the school’s curriculum

improving the physical environment of the school for the purpose of increasing the extent to which disabled pupils are able to take advantage of education and benefits, facilities and services provided or offered by the school

improving the delivery to disabled pupils of information which is readily accessible to pupils who are not disabled

regulation 51 and schedule 1 to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014, where appropriate

section 6 of the Special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years

Careers programme information

From September 2018, academies, free schools and colleges should publish information about the school’s careers programme. This information should relate to the delivery of careers guidance to year 8 to 13 pupils (12 to 18 year olds) and any requirement set out in your funding agreement to deliver careers guidance. For the current academic year, you should include:

the name, email address and telephone number of the school’s Careers Leader

a summary of the careers programme, including details of how pupils, parents, teachers and employers may access information about the careers programme

how the school measures and assesses the impact of the careers programme on pupils

the date of the school’s next review of the information published

Read the statutory guidance for schools on careers guidance and access for education and training providers, or guidance for further education colleges and sixth-form colleges on careers guidance, for more information.

The statutory guidance for schools also contains further information about a policy statement that academies must publish to comply with Section 42B of the Education Act 1997, setting out the circumstances in which providers of technical education and apprenticeships will be given access to year 8 to 13 pupils.

Equality objectives

As public bodies, academies and further education institutions must comply with the public sector equality duty in the Equality Act 2010 and the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011. This means you have to:

publish details of how your school complies with the public sector equality duty - you should update this every year

publish your school’s equality objectives - you should update this at least once every 4 years

You need to include details of:

eliminating discrimination (see the Equality Act 2010)

improving equality of opportunity for people with protected characteristics

consulting and involving those affected by inequality in the decisions your school or college takes to promote equality and eliminate discrimination (affected people could include parents, pupils, staff and members of the local community)

FE and sixth-form colleges

Colleges should publish their instruments and articles of government on their website.

They should also publish their annual members’ report and audited financial statement every year.

Trustees’ information and duties

Academies and free schools

Academy trusts must publish accessible and up to date details of governance arrangements. Find more on what you need to publish about your academy and its board of trustees in the Academies financial handbook.

FE and sixth-form colleges

You should publish the following details about your college’s governing body:

the governing body’s structure and responsibilities

details of any committees

the names of all governors, including the chair

You may wish to simply publish your governors’ handbook, which should include all this information.

To view the details of the Governing Body here at Joseph Leckie Academy, please visit the Governing Board page.

Charging and remissions policies

Academies should publish their charging and remissions policies (this means when you cancel fees). The policies must include details of:

the activities or cases where your school will charge pupils’ parents

the circumstances where your school will make an exception on a payment you would normally expect to receive under your charging policy

Values and ethos

Academies and colleges should publish a statement of their ethos and values.